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...Crimson believes that student opinion on this subject is sufficiently aroused to make a poll conducted in the Houses distinctly worth-while. A number of alternatives are provided, and original suggestions welcomed. When the student voice is heard--and it is hoped that it will be a mighty roar--the last bar to administrative action will topple from its place...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHO TRAVELS ALONE | 11/19/1936 | See Source »

...which is never called anything but an "M. G.,"† is the supreme British bantam sport car and some of the firm's business is in supplying custom-made chassis to road-racing Britons who like to zip and roar. A minuscule M. G. has recently done 140 m.p.h. under test conditions in Germany. Those offered in Manhattan are a super-doodlebug at $1,435, promised to do 83 m.p.h., and a species of semi-sport sedan at $2,550 brought out this year in England for the first time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Swank | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

...bundled into an automobile to ride to Los Angeles. Shocking was his reception by that pro-Roosevelt city. On the outskirts a group of WPA workers leaned on their shovels, booed lustily as he passed. As his car continued down crowded Broadway the boos swelled into a great, derisive roar. There were cheers, too, sometimes rising above the boos, sometimes being drowned out. Alf Landon bore his mile-long ordeal with composure, but once inside his hotel he seemed, to members of his party, crushed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Last Lap | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

...from many of the 15,000 present greeted the vanguard of President Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 and his party on their journey through the Square yesterday afternoon. The presence of Governor Curley in the Presidential car may have had something to do with the unwelcome salutations rising above the roar of the motorcycles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOOHS BECOME APPLAUSE AS PRESIDENT DRIVES THROUGH | 10/22/1936 | See Source »

...procession reached the ball park, every one of its 45,000 seats was taken and some 30,000 other citizens were jammed on the field, in the aisles, outside the gates. Not since he appeared at Philadelphia last June to accept his nomination had newshawks heard anything like the roar which went up as the Nominee was driven slowly around the infield behind an Uncle Sam leading a donkey. Over the grandstands gleamed his floodlighted portrait, 40 ft. high, captioned HE SAVED AMERICA. Exhilarated by this hero's welcome, Franklin Roosevelt mounted a platform over second base to tell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: To the Stump | 10/12/1936 | See Source »

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